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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – It’s clear that genetics and environment play a role in your cancer risk. But what many people overlook is their everyday choices can also have an impact. Choices such as whether you choose to smoke or whether you choose to eat your vegetables. Research now shows you have the power to influence your own cancer risk.

A research team from the University of Texas conducted a study comparing everyday choices with lung cancer risk. They found people who quit smoking reduce their risk of cancer by adding lots of vegetables to their diet. They also report physical activity can also reduce the risk of cancer in former smokers by up to 45 percent.

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By Lindsay Braun, Ivanhoe Men’s health Correspondent

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Facing the world can seem like an impossible fear for some who are suffering from mental illnesses. Now, patients who suffer from depression and bipolar disorder have a new way to find relief without leaving the comfort of their home office.

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) has unveiled FacingUs.org, a website with interactive features aimed at providing aid for people who suffer from depression and bipolar disorder.

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By Leslie Miller, Ivanhoe Men’s health Correspondent

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Wonder what’s going on with Lindsey Lohan and other celebrities whose drug and alcohol problems keep showing up as front page news? Why do they keep getting into trouble? It’s not just about them. Researchers say in our society, we still don’t understand the realities of addiction.
 
Deni Carise, Ph.D., director of the nonprofit Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia, said what most people still don’t get is that when it comes to addiction, there’s no quick fix. “It’s a lifelong, chronic illness,” Dr. Carise said at the Addiction Studies Program in Amelia Island, Fla.
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Washington — Complexity in the health care system is widely acknowledged as a barrier to effective care for many people, and now it’s time to simplify, simplify, simplify, said participants at a recent conference, Advancesin Health Literacy.

With researchers having already demonstrated some serious problems associated with poor Men’s health literacy — more emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and patients’ inability to follow physicians’ directions — they are now shifting their focus to finding solutions. Several were presented at the conference, co-sponsored by the American College of Physicians Foundation and the Institute of Medicine and held Nov. 28 in Washington, D.C.

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Washington — Although the HIV/AIDS epidemic is decades old and preventive measures have been widely promoted, another 40,000 people become infected each year. And, despite considerable progress in reducing the disease’s impact among populations hardest hit initially — gay men and intravenous drug users — other populations, especially racial and ethnic minorities, continue to bear a disproportionate burden, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That’s why researchers are crafting prevention messages to reach these vulnerable people. Several presenters at the American Public (more…)

Emergency departments are finding it increasingly difficult to get specialists to provide on-call coverage, a growing problem that threatens patient access to quality and timely care at hospitals, a new study said.

The study, released in November by the Center for Studying Men’s health System Change, said hospitals have struggled during the past decade to get specialists to be on call at their EDs. But hospital executives and others interviewed for the report said the situation is worsening.

Medical students get a failing grade on their knowledge of physicians’ ethical obligations during wartime, according to a new study authored by a team of Harvard Medical School physicians.

The authors said their study, published in October in the International Journal of Men’s health Services, should prompt medical schools to educate future doctors more thoroughly on the ethical questions they could face in an age of terror and torture.

Emergency departments are finding it increasingly difficult to get specialists to provide on-call coverage, a growing problem that threatens patient access to quality and timely care at hospitals, a new study said.

The study, released in November by the Center for Studying Men’s health System Change, said hospitals have struggled during the past decade to get specialists to be on call at their EDs. But hospital executives and others interviewed for the report said the situation is worsening.

The day-long, once-a-month fast many Mormons undertake as a part of their faith may help explain the lower rates of coronary artery disease in this population, according to a study presented at the American Heart Assn.’s scientific sessions in Orlando, Fla., last month.

“People who fast seem to receive a heart-protective benefit,” said Benjamin D. Horne, PhD, MPH, the study’s senior author and director of cardiovascular and genetic epidemiology at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City.

Emergency departments are finding it increasingly difficult to get specialists to provide on-call coverage, a growing problem that threatens patient access to quality and timely care at hospitals, a new study said.

The study, released in November by the Center for Studying Men’s health System Change, said hospitals have struggled during the past decade to get specialists to be on call at their EDs. But hospital executives and others interviewed for the report said the situation is worsening.